The Elections sa国际传媒 Voter鈥檚 Guide 鈥� 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform tells us that under proportional representation, any party polling fewer than five per cent would be automatically excluded from representation in the legislature.
So if four parties totalled 19.6聽per cent of the vote, but none of them got five per cent, almost one in five voters would be excluded from representation. Of course, the same tends to occur in first-past-the-post, which upsets the PR folks.
The PR folks have been trying to convince us they want every vote to count. They are disingenuous. PR proponents want only those votes they generally agree with to count.
Why should I vote for a system that intentionally, and intentionally undemocratically, would exclude my vote?
It is important to note that an unpopular 4.9 per cent of 87 seats would be four seats. But those votes would be ignored.
So the issue is not a vague hypothetical.
It is a real, politically motivated hatred of small-minority political perspectives, perhaps based upon the incorrect assumption they are all Nazis.
If the problem is Nazis, stop creating them. They don鈥檛 magically spring from the void.
For socialism
Steve Szalai
Victoria
